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ANOTHER WHOOP FROM OUR
TEXAS COW-PUNCHER.
Dear (Sir: Here comes the Old
' Texas Cow Puncher again. I didn’t
; think that I would write any more,
; as I was afraid that I might take up
jßome space in the Jeffersonian that
could he used for a better purpose,
hut after reading the last issue of
fThe Jeffersonian, I couldn’t resist
saying a few words. After reading
the evidence and the proceedings in
general of the Leo Frank case, it
made my blood broil to read it. The
Sury and the judge deserve great
credit in the stand that they have
taken in this case. I don’t see how
any man with any principle and
brains enough to grease a gimlet,
but what would know that Leo Frank
is guilty of one of the most brutal
crimes ever committed, and beyond
any doubt, he is the man who mur
dered and outraged the little girl.
No punishment could be too severe.
While there are some good people
who haven’t acquainted themselves
with the evidence that don’t believe
Frank is guilty. I have a neighbor,
who is a mighty good man and be
lieves and wants to do the right
thing; I was talking to him yesterday
in regard to the Frank case, and he
stated that from what he had seen
in our local paper that he didn’t
much believe Frank was guilty. I
asked him would he read The Jeffer
sonian. I gave him last w’eek’s issue
and told him to go home, sit down
quietly and read it, and when he got
through to report. He did, and pretty
soon he came back with his blood
boiling as bad or worse than mine.
If Frank goes unpunished, or gets
off with a life term in the pen, it
will not be worth while to have a
law. Brother Watson, I want you
to answer one question if you can
and will. What is the difference in
the Leo Frank crime than the parties
Who are trying so hard to get him out
of it? It seems as though there are
a class of lawyers and bankers,
priests, commercial clubs, etc., who
have control of the pump handle
altogether, and just so long as the
middle class of people vote for office
seekers, so long we will have this
trouble and worse.
Mr. Reader, stay away from the
primaries. Have your school house
meetings at the proper time and put
out a good man for different offices;
a man that the office seeks, not an
office seeker. The chronic office
seeker knows you are a good boy and
he will run across the street to shake
hands with you before he is elected.
After he is elected he won’t speak to
you on the street. The writer has
had quite an experience in these pri
maries and will not attempt to ex
plain the rotteness there is in them
and what use there is in putting the
county and State to the expense and
trouble of electing a man one time.
So I’ll appeal to you to stay away
from the primaries.
I am a regular reader of The Jef
fersonian, and I note the trouble and
worry the people are having and the
dissatisfaction with some of the high
up officers. We have just unloaded
one of our high-up officers, similar
to yours; the only difference I can
see of the two is the name.. You call
yours Hog-Eye, and ours is Petro
leum Joe. I suppose you have no
ticed the write up which our present
Governor gave the present adminis
tration. I said amen to every word
of it.
Mr. Reader, are you old enough to
vote? If so, are you a Democrat?
Yes. Allow me to ask you a few
• questions. Do you know why you
are a Democrat? Because your
father was a Democrat. Your father
was like my father; they were old
time Jeffersonian Democrats of
which there are very few of late
years. The Democratic party has
mixed and mingled with the Repub
licans until it is all blended in them,
until I call them Blue Democrats.
Some of them look as blue as an old
Indigo sack. There is a war on be
tween the people of the United States,
and it is going to be waged to a
finish. It is a question as to who will
Control this Government: the Cath-
THE JEFFERSONIAN
olics, the capital, the Protestants or
the middle class of people. I believe
that every man and woman, who has
the proper love for their country
should take a great interest in sup
porting the Jeffersonian and other
like papers. If my finance was such
I would put a Jeffersonian in every
home in the United States.
Brother Watson, I noticed in The
Jeffersonian some time ago some of
your high-up Georgians made a trip
across the pond in Europe with a
view of getting cheap labor. Will
say with but very little expense,
there are several of us who would
like awfully well to have the con
tract to furnish them with train loads
of cheap labor. If they are very par
ticular about the kind of labor, we
might have a little trouble in getting
all one nationality. Ours is strictly
a Dukes Mixture; different colors,
shapes and sizes and nationality.
The odor will range in different scent
from a Musk rat to Limberger cheese,
but will guarantee them to be cheap
labor in every respect, and we reserve
the right to burn the bridges behind
the train as it leaves. To show you
that we can fill this order, San Anto
nio three years ago had one hundred
thousand population, today, she will
number two hundred thousand.
Since the Mexican war broke out they
have been coming over the Rio
Grande River into Texas like sheep
over the fence. Five hundred Cath
olics and four hundred nuns arrived
here at one time; and this is just
part of them. There is one more
important point I have failed to men
tion, which I have no doubt would
please your high-ups very much; we
will guarantee ninety-nine per cent
of this train load of cheap labor to
be Catholics.
Yours very, truly,
Texas. W. M. CROW.
AMERICUS (GA.) PATRIOTIC OR
DER FORWARDS PROTEST
TO CONGRESS.
Americus, Ga.—Americus members
of the Patriotic Order Sons of
America, through Washington Camp,
No. 14, at a recent meeting took for
mal action protesting vigorously
against the pasage of the amendment
to the postoffice appropriation bill as
proposed by J. J. Fitzgerald of New
York, which would restrict the free
dom of the press. Letters to this
effect have been mailed the Georgia
Senators and Congressmen. The fol
lowing letter addressed to Congress
man Charles R. Crisp is a duplicate
of tfiose sent other Georgia members:
Americus, Ga., Jan. 21, 1915.
Hon. Charles R. Crisp, M. C.,
Washington D. C.
Dear Sir: Washington Camp, No.
14, Patriotic Order Sons of America,
through its committee on national
legislation, desires to file this letter
of protest against the passage of the
amendment to the postoffice appro
priation bill, H. R. 19906; also H. R.
20644, measures proposed by John J.
Fitzgerald, M. C., from New York.
These bills being directed at the free
dom of the press, same being in direct
violation of the Constitution of the
United States, which plainly says,
‘‘Congress shall pass no law abridg
ing the freedom of the press.”
We wish also to assign the follow
ing reasons in addition to the fore
going:
Ist. It is not in order where
offered, being a rider to the postoffice
appropriation bills.
2nd. As stated by Congressman
Finley on the floor of the House,
‘‘The power that is proposed to be
lodged in the hands of the postmaster
general by these measures should not
be lodged in the hands of any one
man in all this country.”
3rd. In the language of Congress
man Finley again, ‘‘lt should not be
left to the decision of any one man
and he an executive officer and ap
pointed by another man,” to say what
printed matter as pertaining to the
public press, shall or shall not pass
through the mails except as now pro
vided by the constitution and decis
ions of the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted States.
4th. Because in the freedom of
the press lies the great bulwark of
our liberties and the perpetuation of
institutions peculiarly American.
sth. Because no individual in pri
vate or public life or service or or
ganization as such or political party
as such either individually or collec
tively or institution as such, should
be above the wholesome criticism of
a free and untrammeled public press,
for therein lies the betterment of all,
as servants of the people.
Now, therefore, it is urged upon
you by the unanimous adoption of
this letter of protest by Washington
Camp. No. 14, P. O. S. of A., repre
senting several hundred American
citizens of this city and vicinity, that
you, and other representatives from
Georgia, use every honorable means
to defeat the measures proposed;
these measures, in our opinion, being
an abridgement of the freedom of the
press, and violation of the constitu
tion of the United States.
It is ordered that copies of this let
ter be furnished each representative
in Congress and the Senate from
Georgia also that a copy be furnished
the press.
T. F. WILDER, President.
O. D. REESE, Recording Secretary.
NATHANIEL L’MASTER,
H. D. WATTS,
G. L. WILLIAMS,
Committee on National Legislation.
AN OPEN LETTER.
To the Aidermen of the City of Mil
waukee.
It has come to the attention of
this, the Abraham Lincoln Castle, No.
11, Knights of Luther, that a resolu
tion was introduced in the Common
Council on Monday, Jan. 18th, 1915,
y one Waldemar C. Wehe, Aiderman
of the 22nd Ward, said resolution
calling for a legislative bill to vest
the direction of all Public School ac
tivities in a Board of Education con
sisting of five members to be ap
pointed by the Mayor.
We herewith desire to enter a
vigorous protest against the enact
ment of any suc*h legislation as pro
posed by Aiderman Wehe, believing
that the same would be decidedly un-
American and tyrannical in practice.
We further desire to go on record
as being heartily in favor of the
present method of the administration
of School affairs. The management
of the Public Schools should remain
under control of the people, and not
under the control of one man, who
may at this or some future time be
bitterly antagonistic to the Public
School System.
Hoping Aiderman Wehe’s resolu
tion will be speedily quashed, we re-
mu HiiHfiwjwanuMj,
DID you K/VOW
That in every city In the United States
zhere are hundreds of children whose
parents are too poor to send them to puh
he school?
DID YOU fa/VOW
That the people of the United States ieael
the world In sending money to foreign
countries to educate the children of for
eigners?
DEAD WATSON 9 S BOOM: '
Forefgygg Exposed
And learn what we are doing for the
while we ignore the claims of oier own children
Price 3IS Cents.
THE JEFFERSONIAN PUBLESH2NG CO.
Thomson, Ga.
main, yours for the Protection and
Perpetuation of those Pillars of
American Freedom—the Public
Schools.
The Abraham Lincoln Castle,
No. 11, Knights of Luther.
This letter was’adopted by the Ab
raham Lincoln Castle, No. 11,
Knight of Luther, or .Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, on the 26th day of Jan
uary, in the year of our Lord, Nine
teen Hundred and Fifteen, with the
instructions that a copy of some be
forwarded to the Aidermen of the
City of .Milwaukee, also to the local
daily press, the patriotic press of the
Nation, and to the Guardians of
Liberty of Milwaukee, Wis.
A. W. HINKLE, President.
C. F. SPONHOLZ, Secretary.
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